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Ulyanovsk’s hi-tech nanocoated glass announced

A new $185m hi-tech nanocoated glass production site will break ground later this year in the Ulyanovsk region some 520 miles east of Moscow, the official Rusnano website reports.

The deal has been struck at Open Innovation, an international forum currently under way in Moscow.

The new factory, a subsidiary of SP Glass Holdings B. V., a Rusnano project company, will be built in partnership by Rusnano, Russia’s largest nanotech company; NSG Group, a global company represented in Russia under the Pilkington brand name; STiS, a group of Moscow-headquartered Russian makers of double glass panes; and the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)...

Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, part of the NSG Group, has launched Pilkington Optimirror™ Protect Plus, a new safety mirror that provides enhanced safety capability without the need for secondary processing.

The latest version of the world’s largest trade fair dedicated to the glass industry is now complete, but the impact from many of the products and services displayed last week at glasstec will live on for many years.